This morning the Digimax Class attempted to make step ladders for the BP Technology Challenge. Some teams were successful, other teams encountered a few problems. A few students from our class will now go into training to be selected for the school team.
The challenge is about getting students to blog and develop a world wide audience while doing so rather than just their teacher and classmates. Your class can be involved as a class blog or each student with their own blog can be involved in the student section of the challenge. If students are new to blogging they take part in the beginner section; if they have been blogging for about 6 months or so then the veteran section; if they don’t have their own blog, they might want to take part in the commenter section. This year there will also be activities for a whole class to do. If you have a class blog, make sure the link to this blog is on your blogroll somewhere to make it easy for your students to find the challenges. If you would prefer, you can copy and paste the challenges into your own class blog and adapt them to suit the needs of your students. Mainly, keep reminding the students of the challenge and allow them time in and out of school to complete the activities. There will be a post on this blog in both February and August, about three weeks before the challenge begins. This will be a google form for each participant to fill in. This document will then be converted to a page called Student participants and you will be able to see all the students and links to their URLs so you can visit them to read posts and leave comments. Students will be sorted according to age making it easier for you to visit.Here is an international blog challenge. Sign up at this link and in a few weeks time you will be set challenges. The best thing is that your blog will be in a place where more people will have access to it. You have to remember, the more you comment on other people's blogs, the more your blog will get viewed. Make sure you have this done by the end of the week.
What is the challenge about?
How can my class be involved?
As the teacher, what do I have to do?
How do I join the challenge as a student?
Design a poster using word or publisher (or anything else that you may fancy) to put on the wall in the class (and on our blog) covering our rules for making comments on blogs and win! Make sure you include:
The winner will be voted on by the class and myself and the winner will win themselves some chocolate (King Size Chocolate)!!! Have these finished by Monday next week.
In the Digimax Class we want to start providing feedback (comments) on each other’s work. We had a discussion last week about what a good blog comment would contain and came up with the following:
Use this plan to help figure out what you will cover in your narrative.
Don't start writing with out a plan. Remember the ways we have planned,
this is just another option.
